Originally Posted by Saito Hikari
[quote=spectralhunter]It's hard to convey tone in the forums. Very few, if any are losing their minds over
Context is everything. One also needs to note that tone is not just something that a poster sets with their wording, but what everyone else chooses to assign to it too. For example, I would say the OP's use of 'they never promised' and 'it's your fault' to be considered hostile as well. At least from what I see on this forum, one side at least suggests changes and offers reasoning for them, while the other is quick to assign personal blame over a disagreement of preferences.

That said, there is also a certain questionable quality to not engaging with the debates directly and making a thread trying to tone police the forum instead, but again, I don't really know what context most of the posters in this thread are running off of.

The reason I was a bit hostile was probably that I was almost replying to them, but yeah you're right I should have worded it better.

And about me not directly commenting on the posts, there were two main reasons:
1. It would feel like way besides the point to completely ignore the actual topic of the posts and just talk about how they worded it.
2. I felt like it applied to more than one post (way more) so I saw it fitting to talk about the topic as a whole without targeting someone specific.